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FALLUJAH'S UNSUNG HEROES (PT 1)
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Episode: "FALLUJAH'S UNSUNG HEROES" — Part 1 of 2
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November 2004. Fallujah, Iraq. A ghost city of 300,000 empty homes, 200 mosques, and somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 armed insurgents who had spent six months turning every alley, rooftop, and doorway into a killing ground.
Operation Phantom Fury — known in Arabic as Al-Fajr, "The Dawn" — was the largest urban assault conducted by American forces since Vietnam. The Marines, soldiers, sailors, and Special Operations forces who crossed into Fallujah on November 7, 2004 knew…
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